Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [conj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 400-member Volkskammer approved this resolution with only six deputies opposing and 18 abstentions , while the Bundestag voted 487 to 15 ( opponents including the CDU deputy who was president of the " association of expellees " ) . |
| 2 | On Jan. 30 , the US authorities revealed that two members of a Cuban family were wounded by Cuban security forces while attempting to flee to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay . |
| 3 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 4 | There were 18 pitches to go and six hours of daylight left . |
| 5 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 6 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |
| 7 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 8 | FAITHFUL readers know that four years ago we wagered a magnum of bubbly against the proposed restaurant in the former TSB premises in Stanhope having a Michelin star by 1990 . |
| 9 | Stereoscopic depth perception was studied by Durnford and Kimura ( 1971 ) by asking subjects to judge whether two rods , one presented at the point of fixation and one presented in the left or right visual field , were horizontally aligned . |
| 10 | The Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that in 1990 censorship of the press had been more severe than in any year since 1980 ; seven publications had their offices raided and 11 journalists and writers were arrested [ see also below ] . |
| 11 | According to the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 28 , pro-Israel lobbyists said that 62 senators had undertaken to endorse the guarantees in the event of a vote . |
| 12 | Eyewitness accounts from Western journalists said that 200 troops fired on the unarmed crowd for several minutes before moving in to beat and arrest the survivors . |
| 13 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors estimated that 600,000 acres had been blighted , including large areas of Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 14 | VAT returns show that 9,581 individuals reclaimed the tax in 1991 having completed a genuine , hands-on self-build project . |
| 15 | Parents hope that two others , Clare Donaghy and Sarah Quinn will also be sent there soon . |
| 16 | Such detachment models predict that two types of passive margin will be produced by continental rupture . |
| 17 | British losses in the engagement totalled 290 killed and 825 wounded , including three captains killed and three admirals wounded . |
| 18 | On Creag a'Bhancair , Rab spent four hours cleaning and 40 seconds climbing ( it was starting to rain ) a line left of the start to Carnivore ; Vaguely Vegan , E2 5b was the score . |
| 19 | The intelligence source which had originally tipped off West German police about the group 's activities claimed that five bombs had been made . |
| 20 | However , it sprang to prominence last year when an inventory of its contents revealed that 325 artworks had gone missing . |
| 21 | In the same period , figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders show that 221,900 mortgages ( 2.3 per cent of the outstanding stock ) were more than six months in arrears , compared with 109,370 ( 1.2 per cent of the outstanding stock ) a year earlier , and that 36,610 dwellings were repossessed ( 0.4 per cent of the outstanding stock of mortgages ) , more than double the number recorded a year earlier . |
| 22 | Our figures for oral carcinoma in south east Scotland over the past 10 years show that 456 patients presented with these tumours ; the mean age at presentation was 63.8 years for men and 68.2 years for women . |
| 23 | Furber 's pictorial catalogues collected as Twelve Months of Flowers , a dozen plates based on paintings by Peter Casteels [ q.v. ] , were issued plain or coloured , the main series in 1730 , with a thirteenth plate , containing subscribers ' names within a border of flowers , following in 1732 . |
| 24 | The alleged assaults happened when two officers went to arrest him at a house in Cathcart Road in London . |
| 25 | By June 22 UN military observers stated that 16,642 contras had been disbanded , the figure rising to an estimated 19,197 by June 26 . |
| 26 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 27 | For owner-occupiers , on the other hand , the need to save for a deposit and other expenses , together with the relatively large mortgage payments in the early years means that two incomes are necessary for an extended period and therefore childbearing will be delayed . |
| 28 | UN officials said that 100,000 women and children demonstrated for peace in the north of Mogadishu on March 8 . |
| 29 | The campaign and touring roadshow aims to promote playtime safety after figures revealed that 1,500 children under four from North Clwyd ended up in Glan Clwyd Hospital last year with head and face injuries . |
| 30 | A survey among the group 's 16 founder properties found that 4,000 conferences were booked in 1990 , attracting 90,000 delegates . |